The Liverpool home lit up with 70 thousand lights

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Helen and Marty Walsh along with their son Charlie have been putting on the Liverpool Christmas Light Show at their home since 2021. Their displays bring in crowds of people all whilst raising money for Alder Hey. Just a warning to viewers that the following does contain flashing lights.

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00:00For the fourth year on the run, a family home in Liverpool is putting on a sparkling display

00:06all in aid of a good cause. Helen and Marty Walsh are inviting people to their home in Hunt's Cross

00:12to see the synchronised light-up shows which illuminate their house in Palmerston Road

00:17throughout the festive period. It all came about Christmas 2020. My husband's seen a video on

00:22Facebook of Christmas lights synchronised to music and he looked into it and then he

00:29showed me some videos of it and it was like we've got to do it because he absolutely loved

00:34his Christmas lights. It was a case of adding bits every year. Helen says they've received

00:40nothing but positive comments about the light show even from their neighbours. So throughout 2021

00:47it took 10 months of planning and making everything. We tested it for the whole of

00:54the November and delivered a letter to all of the neighbours on the estate and

01:01they were all all for it and we invited them to a little preview show over three nights.

01:06Everyone is welcome to come and see their display. All they ask for is a donation which goes towards

01:10Alder Hey. It's a chosen charity they say because of all the wonderful work they do for the children

01:16in their care and their families. Their son Charlie has been helped by the hospital in the past and

01:20is now a healthy happy 11 year old. Alder Hey, just the fantastic work for the children especially

01:26with the donation that we done last year that went towards the MediCinema which only opened last

01:32weekend and it was just absolutely brilliant to see our money go to something so worthwhile for

01:40the children. The total amount raised for Alder Hey so far is more than £5,000 and they're hoping

01:45to raise even more this festive season. Each year since 2021 it has grown and they now have

01:51over 70,000 lights in the show. It's no wonder it takes almost a year to prepare for each show as

01:57it can take up to 50 hours of work to sequence just one song. It's more the technical side of

02:04things that takes the longest to put together to work out what we're putting in the shows,

02:09obtaining new songs. Each show lasts approximately 25 minutes and there are a wide variety of

02:15sequences including Christmas classics like the Pogues Fairytale of New York and current

02:20hip-hop songs like Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso. There's flashing lights, there's static lights,

02:27there's motifs, there's singing trees. The real stars of the show are the singing trees, Bruce

02:34the Spruce, his wife Penny Pine and their twin children Zeus and Clementine. It's people from

02:40far and wide. We've even had people who are visiting family up here from the likes of

02:46Salisbury down south. The Liverpool Christmas Light Show runs every day until Tuesday 31st

02:51of December at 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, 7.30pm, 8pm and 8.30pm.

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